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Document number: 8528
Date: 12 Mar 1862
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: NORRIS Edwin
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc no 21929 (envelope only)
Last updated: 9th December 2014

Foreign office
12 March, 1862

Dear Sir,

I shall be very glad to see your Cuneiform papers, and will ask you to address them to my house in Michael’s Grove, as I may not be here every day.

Rawlinson <1> is getting on but slowly with his transliterations and translations, nothing of them is yet printed, except some lines as a specimen.

I thing [sic] we have [cuneiform text] and [cuneiform text] for [Gyyes?] and Lydia, but I do remember [sic] precisely: I will look again at the Slab when I go again to the Museum. We seem to be getting upon a vein of curious matter, several fragments having come to light on similar subjects. We have also two more bits of syllabary, which belong to our first column, which was nearly blank. I am not without hopes of completing the whole list by degrees.

I remain Dear Sir yours faithfully
Edwin Norris

H Fox Talbot Esq
&c &c &c

[envelope:]
W. H. F. Talbot Esqre
Millburn Tower
Edinburgh

Notes:

1. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810–1895), orientalist.

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